Improvement in rein-holders



NI'IED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN SEIBKE, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN RElN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177.756, dated May 23, 1876; application filed April 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRIS. SEIBKE, of Wheeling, in the county of Ohio, and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein-Holders, of which the following is a specification: The nature of my invention consists in certain improvements upon the rein-holderfor which Letters Patent N 0. 176,080 were granted to me April 11,1876, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. r V In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and'in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved rein-holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig.3 is a section through a partthereof.

A represents the dash-board-of a wagon, to-

the back or inner side of which is secured a metallic frame, consisting of two longitudinally-grooved side pieces, B B, connected by top and bottom bars 0 G, andhaving a perforated stringer, D, in the center connecting the two cross-bars. This entire frame may be cast in onepiece, and attached to the dash-board by screws 01, through the top and bottom bars 0 O. In the grooved side pieces B B of this frame is a sliding frame, E, which may be adjusted up and down, as required, and held at any point desired by means of a spring-bolt, 11, passing through'the bottom cross-bar of said sliding frame into either one of the perforations in the stringer D. This spring-bolt is held by an arched or curved bar, G, attached to a former on the lower cross-bar of the sliding frame. On the upper end of this frame E is secured-a horizontal bar, G, having projecting flanges on both sides at the top, or in other words its cross-section is in the form of the letter T. On this bar are placed two heads, H H, which can be moved out or in thereon, and held at any point desired. On top of each head at the inner end is secured one end of a flat metal spring, I, which extends in a slightly-curved form to the outer end of the head, whereit has a pin, 1', attached to it, which pin passes down through the head into any one of a series of perforations for holding the head in place. From this end of the head the spring I is bent over in arched or curved form to the inner end of the head, where a lip, d, is formed on the end of the spring, and the tension of the spring holds the same down on the head. The lines or reins are held by the springs I I at any desired distance apart by adjusting the heads H on the bar G, and at any height desired by adjusting the sliding frame E in the stationary frame. This rein-holder is simple in construction, and not liable to get out of order.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' The combination, with the adjustable frame E, of the perforated bar G, sliding heads H H, and the springs I I, provided with the pins 6 and lips d, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRIS. SEIBKE. 

